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CS674<BR>
Introduction to Natural Language Understanding<BR>
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<H3>Computer Science Department<BR>
    Cornell University<BR>
    Spring 1996</H3>
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<H3>Welcome to CS674!</H3>

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<H2>Announcements</H2>
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<li>Here is a list of resources available in
<tt>~cs674/project</tt>:
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<li><tt>brill</tt>: directory for the Brill part of speech tagger
<li><tt>brown</tt>: directory for the Brown corpus (part-of-speech tagged)
<li><tt>muc4</tt>: directory for a small corpus annotated with
part-of-speech information (text is from the MUC4 corpus)
<li><tt>xwn</tt>: executable for WordNet
(be sure to set the environment variable <tt>WNSEARCHDIR</tt> to 
<tt>~nlp/Archive/wordnet/dict</tt> before you run <tt>xwn</tt>)
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collection of annotated text. We have this here at Cornell. You can
use any part of it that you'd like for your projects. (Talk to Francis
about how to access it.)  
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AI Repository</a> contains has pointers to code for various NLP system components.<br>
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